Hepatotoxicity
Capsaicin, Neurokinin Receptor Antagonist Protect Against Hepatitis in Mice
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 8th, 2001
Both substances appear to protect mice from hepatitis by depleting peptidergic primary afferents, according to a report presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience by medical investigators at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany.
G. Tiegs et al. reported that mice with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha induced liver injury were completely protected from liver damage by the prior administration of capsaicin. Capsaicin depletes substance P in nerve endings.
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